I become a god in another world

Chapter 205 The Red Shoe Ghost Case
Chapter 205
"Fengmen Village is not a yellow land, the color of these footprints is wrong... Qi's mother exclaimed, we rushed over and found Qi's wife acting strangely."

"Qi's wife was 36 years old at the time of the incident. She was wearing turmeric and linen clothes. When the Demon Suppressor came in, her expression did not change. Her eyes were as cold as a dead person. She stood there."

Ordinary people are afraid of seeing officials.

The status of the Demon Suppressing Division was so high that even local officials would tremble with fear when they saw him, let alone ordinary peasant women.

Qi's wife was not surprised when the people from the Suppressing Demon Division appeared, so she must have encountered an accident.

Zhao Fusheng then looked down:
"The most bizarre thing is that she wears a pair of weird shoes on her feet... one shoe is gray and one is red, one big and one small!"

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, his pupils shrank.

Based on the previously recorded clues, she was almost certain that the 'shoe' might be an important clue to the ghost case that occurred 43 years ago.

as predicted.

Later files continued to record: "Qi's wife has a pair of big feet, at least eleven inches long."

(Discounted for about 40 yards.)
"The gray shoe she wore had a tattered toe, which was sewn with several layers of old cloth, and there were hairs on the edges. The other red shoe was brand new and much smaller, about ten inches at most. Qi's wife's big feet were squeezed into it, and the instep was Du Le arched up."

Looking at it this way, Zhao Fusheng became more and more certain that the red shoes were related to the ghost case.

With a thought in her mind, she secretly guessed: The footprints of these red shoes might be exactly ten inches long, which was the same as the footprints left by Qi Erniu before she died.

"Qi's wife stood on tiptoe and stepped on the ground. After we entered the house, her expression did not change. Jing Li Neng scolded her from a distance but did not move."

"I looked carefully at the toes of her red-shoeed feet, which touched the ground slightly. In about three breaths, Qi's wife's head shriveled up and fell, like boiling water melting ice, and disappeared without a trace in front of us."

Through the words, Zhao Fusheng could imagine the horror on the faces of several people from the Demon Suppression Department when they were handling this case.

"After Qi's wife disappeared, a footprint as red as blood was left where she last stood. We asked Qi Daniu to take rice paper to rub the footprints. The footprints were reddish-brown in color, with a bloody smell, and there was an evil spirit inside them. ”

The subsequent records involved key data, which verified Zhao Fusheng’s guess:
"After testing, the footprint was ten inches long, which is the same size as the footprint left by Qi Erniu before she died. From this, I deduce that the mother and daughter of the Qi family died at the hands of the same evil spirit!"

The evil ghost from Fengmen Village appears!
And he appeared in front of several case investigators from the Demon Suppression Division.

Since Qi Daniu's wife and daughter got into trouble one after another, Zhao Fusheng based on the few lines of words in front of him, made a preliminary estimate that this evil ghost might kill people based on the "proximity principle".

The so-called 'proximity principle' includes but is not limited to: people in Qi Daniu's family, people who witnessed the murderous scene of the evil ghost, people who have touched the evil ghost's mark, and people who have touched items related to the evil ghost - for example The envoy who measured the bloody footprints left by Qi Erniu and Qi's wife after their death.

In addition, because the file records the previous circumstances of this ghost case are relatively brief, Zhao Fusheng could not infer whether the deaths in Fengmen Village before reporting the case to the local town or county were men, women, young and old, or only women. .

She patiently looked down, and then she saw that shortly after the death of Qi's wife, Chen Hao, the envoy, suddenly had an accident.

Case file records:

"After discussion, everyone believed that Qi Daniu's family was most likely to be enveloped by the murderous ghost law, and decided to temporarily withdraw from Qi Daniu's family and lock the family in their home."

There is no record of the situation at that time, but Zhao Fusheng guessed that things did not go well.

Just as the people from the Suppression Division were about to leave Qi's house, "...Chen Hao suddenly froze on the spot. Li Neng called him twice but did not answer. Wang Xian stepped forward to pull him, but found that his palms were cold and his fingers were stiff."

"His face was pale, and a large number of dead spots began to appear on his cheeks, sides of his neck and back of his hands. At the same moment, his body was tilted, his instep was arched, like a pig's hoof, his toes and heels fell to the ground, and the sole bones of his feet were broken and punctured the skin. Blood gushed out from the wound, and a small red shoe was put on his foot. "

This unlucky envoy who followed the leader of the order to Fengmen Village to deal with the ghost case 43 years ago became the victim of the ghost case.

After Chen Haoyi's incident, at least Zhao Fusheng confirmed that the law of the ghost case in Fengmen Village was not just for women, but for the indiscriminate killing of men, women, old and young.

The massacre that followed was not over.

Later, Qi Daniu, his mother, the eldest son, and the second son all failed to escape and were killed one by one by the ghosts.

Now everyone was panicked.

No one dared to measure the bloody footprints left by these people after their death. Everyone was worried that the ghost would kill them.

The commander at that time made a prompt decision and ordered the houses of Qi Daniu and his family to be burned down. In fear, everyone in the village followed the order one by one and piled firewood to burn the whole house.

The fire burned for two days, and Qi's family was burned to ashes.

In the past two days, I didn't hear of anyone dying again in Fengmen Village.

"But I know that the matter is not settled so easily." The file reads:

"Common people don't know how powerful the evil ghost is, and think that no more bad news is the best news. However, the ghost realm has not been lifted, which proves that the evil ghost is still killing people."

Fengmen Village is not small.

The imperial court conducted a household registration check 47 years ago. At that time, the village had a population of thousands. Such a large village was not a clan system. Each village was dominated by its own people. The prestige of the village chief was limited, and no one obeyed anyone.

When someone goes missing at home, villagers may not be able to report it in time, which gives an opportunity for the spread of ghost cases to expand.

"I realized that I can't let the ghost kill people like this. I have stayed in Fengmen Village for four days. The ghost realm has not been lifted and has a tendency to expand. The ghost kills people very quickly and the interval is short. If this continues, the ghosts will kill people very quickly. The speed of advancement.”

"Gotta send it away!"

When writing this sentence, the ink on the parchment file became thicker, which shows that the person who recorded the case was not at peace at the time.

"If the ghost doesn't show up, I will take the initiative to attract the ghost."

"I need to choose someone who can attract ghosts to do this."

"I chose Li Neng, and I asked him to light the ghost incense. The ghost soon smelled the incense and came, and Li Neng quickly became the ghost's next murder target."

"...The ghost is trapped in Li Neng... I asked Wang Xian, Yang Chong... and several people to wear hemp and mourning, use paper money to clear the way, lure the ghost forward, and finally lead it away from Fengmen Village."

"... The accompanying envoys died one by one, and the power of the ghost ritual was exhausted. I witnessed Li Neng getting into an old grave in the mountains, and the ghost domain in Fengmen Village was lifted."

Once the ghost domain is eliminated, it means that the ghost case in Fengmen Village is officially closed.

A total of nine people were involved in handling this ghost case, including one commander and eight envoys. However, in addition to the large number of villagers who died in Fengmen Village, none of the eight envoys from the Suppressing Demon Division returned in their lifetime!
Even though Zhao Fusheng was used to the strange and dangerous nature of ghost cases, seeing this ghost case that had happened decades ago still made waves in his heart.

Although this ghost case has been solved for the time being, in Zhao Fusheng's opinion, it is not perfect.

The ghost case ends with the evil ghost being led away by Li Neng, the ghost realm is lifted, and the evil ghost sneaks into an old grave deep in the mountains. From the literal meaning, it seems that the ghost returns to the mountain tomb and the ghost case is solved.

But Zhao Fusheng knew in his heart that the evil ghosts were immortal. Apart from opening the Hell of the Gods List to collect them, and activating the Gods List to confer gods, there was no complete way to avoid future troubles.

(In fact, the solution to the list of gods is not a complete solution. In Zhao Fusheng's view, the existence of the list of gods only restrains the wandering ghosts around a person, and the hidden dangers are always there.)
In Zhao Fusheng's view, the solution for luring ghosts into graves was more like the method used by the commander-in-chief at that time to temporarily put the ghosts into a state of slumber, but the ghosts would eventually wake up.

Once the ghost revives, it may cause a new round of murderous intent.

In the records of this ghost case from 43 years ago, there is a record of the method used by the ghost to kill people, but there is no crucial information.

For example: the person in charge of the order at the time did not investigate the identity of the red shoes, nor did they find out how the ghost marked the victim.

Now, decades later, it is not easy to find out the identity of the red-shoe ghost again.

After all, this ghost case occurred on the territory of Wan'an County. Although everything has been peaceful over the years, if it breaks out, it may cause a large number of casualties.

It would be okay if Zhao Fusheng didn't know about the hidden dangers of this ghost case. Now that she knew the past, she naturally wanted to nip this hidden danger in the bud.

——You must never let your merits be deducted from the list of gods!

Zhao Fusheng's eyes darkened, he closed the file again, and decided to take advantage of this opportunity to go to Fengmen Village to find local survivors who were over sixty years old and had experienced the ghost case, and then inquire more about it. The whole story of this ghost case.

It would be great if she could find out from these survivors the location of the old grave where Li Neng got into after being possessed by the ghost. She could find a way to put a seal on such a grave so that the ghost could be suppressed for a longer period of time.

After making up her mind, she put down the file in her hand, thought about it, and opened the parchment again with her fingers.

She pushed the dossier rolled into a circle and gently spread it to one side. Her eyes fell on the row of small words:

"I selected Li Neng... and asked him to light the ghost incense. The evil ghosts soon smelled the incense and came... Wang Xian and Yang Chong... wore hemp and filial piety, opened the way with paper money, and lured the evil ghosts forward..."

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, he became very interested in the law of ghosts of the commander of the order forty-three years ago.

"43 years ago, who was in charge of the commander at that time?" Zhao Fusheng pressed his fingers on the handwriting on the file, moved it slightly a few times, then put the file away again and went to check the commander's information.

The handyman of the Demon Suppression Department was worried that she might be in trouble, so the files of past commanders and envoys of Wan'an County were placed in the innermost corner.

Compared with the sparse case files that Wan'an County has handled over the years, the files of Lingsi and Lingshi are numerous, filling several huge case file cabinets.

These files were also placed in categories. Zhao Fusheng found the roster of the Han Dynasty in 203 according to the year.

These "death lists" of the Wan'an County Zhenma Division are not published every month, but the deaths are based on the time of the case.

Just like there were only three volumes of ghost cases in the same year, the time of death was recorded only three times this year.

In March, July and November respectively.

This time is very regular. Each case is handled four months apart. Zhao Fusheng suspects that the same commander is handling these cases.

Since the ghost case occurred in November of that year, it appears from the records that the commander did not die in the Red Shoes Ghost Murder Case.

Coupled with Dahan's pattern of handling ghost cases in 203, if she wants to find information about the leader of the order, she can look for it from the end of Dahan 202 to 203, or the first personnel change in early 204 Go find it.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fusheng's eyes fell on the list of files from the Han Dynasty in 202.

The list of files did not change much this year, still three times, but the number of files increased - that is to say, many people died in the Demon Suppression Division of Wan'an County this year.

She randomly selected a file from September 202, which contained dense records of the Death Order's life.

Zhao Fusheng glanced at the information on these envoys, and then quickly changed a volume of information, and the list of envoys was still changing.

……

It seems that the ghost case in Wan'an County in September 202 was serious.

Zhao Fusheng changed four or five volumes in a row, and when he finally picked up the sixth volume, it recorded:
In September 202 of the Han Dynasty, the former commander Xu Jun died in a ghost case, causing the evil ghost to resurrect.

In September 202, the General of the Demon Suppression Division heard the news and urgently dispatched Xie Jingsheng, deputy commander of Guangling County under the rule of Xuzhou, to be transferred to Wan'an County Demon Suppression Commander.

From the county to the county, although it is said that the deputy order is transferred to the county magistrate, this kind of transfer can be regarded as decentralization.

However, Zhao Fusheng had a hunch that the transferred Xie Jingsheng might be the person in charge of the order that finally solved the out-of-control ghost disaster in Wan'an County.

In the files, there are usually simple information records about the newly transferred commander.

Xie Jingsheng: A native of Dijing, he is 26 years old. His uncle Xie Kui is also from Zhenmo Division.

When Zhao Fusheng saw this, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows: It seems that this first responder from Wan'an County 43 years ago turned out to be a person with a strong background.

Xie Jingsheng: He controls the evil spirits and is good at funerals.

Characteristics of ghosts: You can burn ghost incense. Once the ghost incense is burned, it will attract evil ghosts to eat it. Wherever the ghost incense goes, the evil ghosts will be sealed by the scent of the incense. The fragrance will not dissipate and the evil ghosts will not be able to escape.

The rules of killing by ghosts: after the ghost incense is ignited, the ghosts will enjoy the messenger as a tribute.

……

The record of the ghosts controlled by Xie Jingsheng in the file is not particularly detailed, only a general outline. After all, the power of the ghosts controlled by the ghost controller is also a personal secret and will not be fully disclosed to the outside world.

However, Zhao Fusheng could roughly deduce the ability of Xie Jingsheng's ghosts from these few lines of records, combined with the records of the Red Shoe Ghost Case in November 203.

Holding funerals, lighting ghost incense to attract ghosts——

From these various records, Zhao Fusheng concluded that Xie Jingsheng should be good at handling ghost cases in the "funeral" way.

First, a special ghost incense is given to an orderer to be lit. Once the ghost incense is ignited, the resurrected ghost will smell the incense and kill the orderer holding the incense with murderous techniques.

But after killing the order envoy, the evil ghost was immediately sealed in the body of the incense-bearing order envoy.

This is the time to really do the 'funeral'.

According to the record of the Red Shoe Ghost Case in November 203, after the death of the incense-bearing order, there will be other orders to wear hemp, wear mourning, mourn, sprinkle paper money, etc. to lead the way and lead the ghost controlled in disguise to leave.

This set of itineraries ended until the ghost finally entered his grave.